A 17-year-old Santa Cruz girl who overdosed on LSD is the latest in a rash of incidents involving LSD and law enforcement.

"It was an unfortunate situation. A young lady ingested LSD from a Popsicle with a friend and begin having seizures and was rushed to a medical center and her case is serious," said Chris Clark, spokesman for the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department.

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It's the third LSD incident in less than a month.

"It really does only take that one time where you take that wrong hit or that thing that was laced with something that it shouldn't have been," said Katie Mayeda, a counselor with Janus of Santa Cruz a drug treatment center.

Teen LSD use jumped into the spotlight last month with the shooting death of Luke Smith.

The 15-year-old Aptos high school student swallowed liquid LSD and then stabbed his father and uncle. He was shot to death by a sheriff's deputy when he allegedly lunged at officers with the knife.

And last week, Marko Manojlovic of Watsonville collided with safety markers before crashing his car on Highway 17.

He fought with officers and was also high on LSD.

"If we get information like what we're seeing now, we want to provide that information to the public as quickly as we can so we can hopefully prevent future harm," said Clark.

The number of LSD incidents in such a short amount of time is alarming and it has deputies and counselors warning parents to talk to their children about the dangers of using drugs.

"I really want to encourage parents to be able to start having these conversations. Use this as an opportunity to talk to your kid about what's out there, what do drugs really do to you, talk about what drugs are," Mayeda said.